Tuscan Lemon Muffins Recipes

LEMON CRUMB MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Line a muffin tin with parchment paper liners.
• Stir sugar, flour, and oats together in a small bowl until combined. Work butter into the dry ingredients until it resembles damp sand. Set the topping aside while you prepare the muffin batter.
• Stir together applesauce, sugar, egg, and lemon zest in a large bowl. Add lemon juice and sour cream and stir until combined. Add flour, baking powder, and salt. Stir everything together until just combined.
• Spoon batter into the prepared muffin cups, filling each halfway. Sprinkle the topping on each muffin until completely covered.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick comes out clean, 20 to 25 minutes. Cool in the tin for about 10 minutes before serving.

LEMON ZUCCHINI MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Grease 12 muffin cups, or line with paper muffin liners.
• Mix flour, 3/4 cup sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in a large bowl; make a well in the center of the flour mixture. Mix zucchini, yogurt, butter, egg, 1 tablespoon lemon juice, and 1 tablespoon lemon zest in a separate bowl; pour yogurt mixture into well. Gently stir yogurt, slowly incorporating the flour mixture until just blended. Batter may be slightly lumpy. Pour batter evenly into prepared muffin cups.
• Bake in preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center of a cupcake comes out clean, about 20 minutes.
• While muffins are baking, whisk 1/3 cup lemon juice, 1/4 cup sugar, and 2 teaspoons lemon zest together in a saucepan over medium heat until mixture comes to a simmer and sugar is dissolved, about 5 minutes. Cover and keep glaze warm over low heat.
• Poke each muffin several times with a toothpick; spoon glaze over muffins. Cool in the pans for 10 minutes before removing to cool completely on a wire rack.

TUSCAN LEMON MUFFINS

Steps:

• Oven needs to be preheated to 375 degrees.
• Combine flour, sugar, baking powder, salt into a bowl and make a well in the center. In another bowl combine ricotta, water, olive oil, lemon juice & rind and the egg. Pour this mixture into the well. Stir until blended.
• In a muffin pan sheet, place liners in each slot and lightly spray with cooking oil. Divide batter into each slot equally.
• Bake for about 16 minutes. Test with a wooden tooth pick in the center, if it comes out clean, it is done cooking.
• Allow to cool for about 5 minutes before eating.

LOTTA LEMON MUFFINS

Steps:

• Muffins.
• Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
• Grease or spray muffin pan with release spray such as PAM.
• Mix together dry ingredients in a large bowl and make a well in the center.
• In a separate bowl mix together wet ingredients.
• Pour wet ingredients in to the well of the dry and stir together gently until there are no flour streaks, it's ok if there are some lumps.
• Bake 20 minutes, edges should get just a little brown, test as usual.
• While muffins are baking, prepare glaze.
• Glaze.
• Mix glaze ingredients together in a small saucepan over medium heat, stir until sugar dissolves and mixture simmers slightly.
• Keep warm low heat.
• As soon as muffins are removed from the oven poke each one several times with a skewer, then spoon glaze over the muffins, using up all of it.
• Enjoy!
• NOTES:.
• The dough is much stiffer than most muffins, don't worry they still come out nice and moist.
• I don't use muffin papers with this recipe or you lose a lot of the glaze that is normally absorbed around the sides, which adds to the moistness of the muffin.